[OSM-talk] Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 05:59:45 BST 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> Whilst it's very usable for regional and remote areas for which there is no data.  There is no justification for joining making admin boundaries into roads for metro areas particularly where there is Nearmap coverage.

Here are three justifications:
- working with overlapping or near-overlapping ways is difficult in
some editors (Potlatch, for example)
- maintaining two ways is more work than maintaining one
- map users will be uncertain where the real administrative boundary
is if it appears to follow a road, but has no clearly defined
relationship with it. Is the boundary down the middle of the road, on
one side, the other, or independent of it?

As John Smith has pointed out, actually finding out the real status of
the boundary could be a lot of work, but it would be valuable.

Steve




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